Apologize Less, Create More

You need to quit feeling guilty or apologizing for your need of regular creative time. If you postpone your creative pursuits until everything on your (and everyone else’s) to-do list is checked off, what you were born to create will never be born. Because there will always be more to do.

Finding daily or weekly time for your creativity won’t be easy…but it is possible. C.S. Lewis found a way to create during a time of intense war and in the midst of his ongoing daily responsibilities as a full-time professor. On any given day, those demands likely felt more pressing than him sitting down to write. Imagine someone observing him at his desk as he typed what appeared to be simply a children’s story trying to fathom how that could be the best use of his time. There’s no way they could, in that moment, grasp the impact Aslan and Narnia would have on millions before The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe was created. Not even J.R.R. Tolkien reacted positively when he initially read an advance copy. Yet C.S. Lewis kept writing.

I’m glad Lewis remained steadfast in his commitment to that story…and to his life-long pursuit of God and creativity. I’m glad you are too. 

Stop apologizing. Start creating.  

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